Educational Courses

A 12-Hour Occlusion Course

12 Credit Hours per session

Chris Baker, RN, DMD

Course Description

This course provides incredibly useful knowledge about occlusion, a far-reaching aspect of dental science often overlooked. But, if the doctor knows how to use this knowledge, he or she gets greater success of clinical results in all disciplines of dentistry - all of which are totally dependent on the patient's occlusion.

This course will help the clinician know how to diagnose and treat the at-risk patient before instituting dental therapies.

General dentists are presented with a wide variety of individualized patient treatment needs and risk factors that impact the treatment protocols and results, success and failure of the doctor's treatments. A new understanding of occlusion and how it relates to this variety of parameters, signs, symptoms and risk factors will give the GP the ability to provide a superior patient experience and make the doctor's practice stand out.

A recent study shows the success rate for aligner treatment systems is about 50%. This course shows how to use proven methods to increase that success rate to more than 95%.

This course demonstrates the importance and methods of diagnostics that are under-utilized in improving occlusion and in making the dental care more successful. Your course's diagnostic approach yields untold benefits.

All of the diagnostic and case preparation clinical techniques will be relatively familiar to most dentists. However the utilization and information gathered relative to dental treatments, including orthodontics and Invisalign® treatment, will be an excellent and possibly surprising body of knowledge which will improve the doctors' and their patients' enjoyment of and success in dental care.

Course Highlights

This 12-hour course offers the dentist opportunity to learn how diagnostic protocols can transform their practice by learning:

  • why patients fracture cusps, complain of sensitive teeth, and return for adjustments following placement of new restorative work. (Hint: it's occlusion.)
  • how to lessen giving away your time and stop losing money!
  • how to treat these problems and get paid for it.
  • how to deal with severe bruxism.
  • how to lessen sensitivity after your treatments.
  • how to reduce the patient's risk of problems following orthodontics or restorative treatment.
  • how to communicate these diagnostic findings to the patient, making them an ally - not an adversary - in their treatment and by helping change the patient's perceived need for treatment to optimum dental care.
  • which orthodontic mechanics contribute most to these problems, and how to avoid them.
  • how to make adult orthodontics much more efficient and successful.

Course Objectives

  • leave the course with the tools to grow productivity and reduce frustrations.
  • learn the easy identification of patients' risk factors that cost you money and drive both the patients and you crazy.
  • learn how to evaluate and then treat these problems AND get paid for it.
  • learn what the financial impact is in treating without these protocols, AND what the financial impact is treating with this specific knowledge.
  • finally know how to deal with and improve occlusion - and it’s easy!

Hotel Information

Enjoy a relaxing AND educational experience at either the beautiful Amelia Island Plantation, thirty minutes from Jacksonville, FL or the luxurious Westin Riverwalk Hotel in downtown San Antonio.

Embassy Suites Baltimore at BWI Airport

Conveniently located close to the Baltimore Washington International Airport (BWI) This course is 12 hours (teaching 6 hours, 8:30 a.m. - Noon and 1-3 p.m. for two days). Learn cutting-edge dentistry during the day and, in the evening, enjoy the gourmet restaurants, shopping and history of Baltimore's Inner Harbor or colorful pubs and clubs in the city's old Fells Point neighborhood. For room reservations, call the Embassy Suites BWI at (410) 850-0747. When calling Embassy Suites, please tell the reservations agent that you are an American Orthodontic Society - Dr. Chris Baker Seminar participant to get the special room rate. The hotel is at 1300 Concourse Dr., Linthicum Heights, MD 21090. A free shuttle to and from BWI airport is provided.

Westin Riverwalk Hotel San Antonio, Texas

12 hours (teaching 4 hours, 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. for three days). Enjoy the great restaurants, clubs, shopping, history and culture of San Antonio's glamorous Riverwalk. For room reservations, call the Westin at (210) 224-6500. When calling the Westin, please tell the reservations agent that you are an American Orthodontic Society - Dr. Chris Baker Seminar participant to get the special discounted room rate of $149 or the discounted suite rate of $189.

To Register:

Register online at www.othodontics.com or call 800.448.1601 between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday thru Friday CST, and use your credit card to register. Phone registration will assure your place in the course, or MAIL the completed registration form along with your payment to: American Orthodontic Society, 11884 Greenville Ave., Suite 112, Dallas, TX 75243.

Location and Cost

Cost: $715 for doctors; $385 for assistants

Location:
Call the Amelia Island Plantation @ 888.261.6161

Westin Riverwalk Hotel @ 210.224.6500

Schedule

8:30 AM to 1:00 PM

Recognition

A total of 12 CE hours will be granted for this course, 50% lecture/concepts/didactic and 50% laboratory participation. AOS is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider and AOS CE Units are accepted by the AGD for FAGD/MAGD credit.